Epic buys out Psyonix devs, set to bar game from Steam

[Zoombael]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Zoombael said:

Yet, nobody has a problem when third party games are exclusive to other distribution services. And they didnt pay anything, no consessions whatsoever.

Also curious, whenever this little titbid gets pointed out, it gets ignored.

If it's just the developer's choice to only release on one single platform or for one single platform (Like Game Freak and Next Level Games with Nintendo, for instance, despite being independent studios), then who are we to judge them? However, buying themselves the exclusivity, even just a timed one, is a shitty move and has nothing to do competition, apart from avoiding it.

I explicitly wrote 'distribution services'. Steam, itch, Discord, EGS. All of them have have one thing in common. Games exclusive to their services. Third party games. If you want to play Sekiro on PC then there is no other way, you have to install Steam.

For whatever reasons, it is the exact same thing. 1:1.